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Yes to Life
Sep 8, 2020 · Viktor Frankl
Author of the international bestseller Man’s Search for Meaning Viktor Frankl wrote a series of essays within a year of his release from Nazi co...
Philosophy Psychology Society and Culture -
Digital Minimalism
Sep 4, 2020 · Cal Newport
With a whole slew of digital communication tools at our disposal, it’s easy for life to become a never-ending stream of noise. But what if caref...
Current Affairs Science and Technology Society and Culture -
Letter From Birmingham Jail
Sep 3, 2020 · Martin Luther King, Jr.
A group of clerics from Alabama wrote a piece criticizing the civil disobedience of King and others. This essay-letter was King’s response, writ...
History Politics Society and Culture -
Behave
Aug 31, 2020 · Robert Sapolsky
In addition to dedicating years of his life to living among baboons in the African bush, Robert Sapolsky is a Stanford professor whose work sits at th...
Health and Wellness Psychology Science and Technology -
You're Not Enough (And That's Okay)
Aug 25, 2020 · Allie Beth Stuckey
Journalist and podcast host Allie Beth Stuckey puts our culture’s conventional self-love wisdom on trial and finds it guilty of making us misera...
Religion and Theology Self-Help Society and Culture -
The Courage to Create
Aug 20, 2020 · Rollo May
Life requires different kinds of courage, but the late psychologist Rollo May argued that none is more important than the courage to create. For May, ...
Philosophy Psychology Society and Culture -
Why We Swim
Aug 17, 2020 · Bonnie Tsui
Almost three-quarters of our planet’s surface is water. Forty percent of the world’s population lives within 60 miles of a coastline. Wate...
Health and Wellness Sports and the Outdoors -
Getting Things Done
Aug 14, 2020 · David Allen
Do you need to accept excess stress as the nature of the twenty-first century beast? Or is it possible that there might be a comprehensive organizatio...
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A History of the American People
Aug 10, 2020 · Paul Johnson
British historian Paul Johnson begins his lengthy treatment of America’s history with a dedication “…to the people of America&mdash...
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Modern Man in Search of a Soul
Aug 4, 2020 · Carl Jung
The First World War brought a sense of profound unease to the modern soul. The Enlightenment’s optimism about human potential had difficulty exp...
Psychology Religion and Theology Society and Culture
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